One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. LAWRENCEYou can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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